Tip: When determining a time limit, remember that players won't be as familiar with the level as you are. If you normally complete the level with the timer around 100, others might run out of time on their first try.

For this month's Staff Spotlight, the interviewing job was shoved onto me so I can question my good friend about his job and stuff. Enjoy!

FPzero: So this interview thingTyty: I have the image ready :VFPzero: lolFPzero: congrats Twitter man, ur spotlightTyty: hooray I did it

FPzero: Welcome all to the Half-Assed Staff Spotlight Interview Show Thing. This month's prestigious staff spotlight winner/roulette victor is Tyty, also known as Teyla on the forumsFPzero: He runs the Twitter account and also does some other PR stuff on the sideFPzero: probably some very important decision making that no one but staff are privy toTyty: You say that but really I just shitpostFPzero: I forget if we're supposed to remain pg-13 for this or notTyty: We can call it funposting thenFPzero: PerfectoFPzero: Anyway I was chosen to interview him because i know tyty the best and we're a package deal or whatever joke of the day about us is relevant right now

FPzero: Let's start from the beginning: What brought you to the site in the first place? How did you discover SMWCentral?Tyty: Well it was pretty much after being laughed at on Acmlm's board a while before... I don't even remember which incarnation it was, but the split that made Jul and board2Tyty: I was pretty interested in smw hacking, but honestly details are kinda foggy about the pre-nightfall stuff for me besides posting as the "Happy piranha plant" for a while for some reasonFPzero: The Happy Piranha PlantTyty: YeahFPzero: I'm gonna go rename the Bar & Grill, brbTyty: I vaguely remember having edited the yoshi's island sprite to be smilingFPzero: The one thing that I know you'll lord over me a tiny bit is the fact you have one of the lowest userIDs on the siteTyty: That's only because I was really quick to register after the wipeFPzero: though that's after the great wipe yeahFPzero: Acmlm's Board and Jul were fun times back then. Lots of cool people came and wentTyty: Shame about the dramaFPzero: Do you remember what made you interested in SMW hacking? Back then it wasn't like today where you could just look up smw hack videos on youtube and become interested like thatTyty: I remember a friend telling me about mario hacks, how people could change the levels inside the gameTyty: It got me interested immediately. As a kid I had sketched out level ideas before, so I thought it would be pretty fun to actually make themTyty: Obviously my first level was absolute garbage, I don't have it anymore thoughFPzero: Haha, I remember my first one was pretty garbo tooTyty: I remember it was vaguely something like thisTyty: Tyty: With the goal tape just past the blue koopaFPzero: inspirationalTyty: I've always had an interest in putting things where they don't belong in mario levelsTyty: Porcupuffers in lava, puntin' chucks kicking other objects, stuff like thatTyty: Don't know whyTyty: porcupuffers don't work in lava btw, they just dieFPzero: fTyty: f

FPzero: So that was the beginning. But what's kept you around the site all these years? I mean, we both pre-date the great wipe and here we are still hanging aroundTyty: I'm not entirely sure besides, honestly, mario hackingTyty: I kept drifting away and coming back every now and then, usually around the time of a contest or somethingTyty: out of all the communities I've been in, even if I just lurk and don't post, it's the one that's felt the most like "home"FPzero: That makes sense to me. The site does feel pretty invitingTyty: usuallyTyty: I actually dug up my first overworld, since you brought it upTyty: Tyty: My earliest hacking escapades mostly looked like thisFPzero: go post in showoffFPzero: lolTyty: kFPzero: by the way i actually did rename the b&gTyty: I saw, you're gonna confuse everyoneFPzero: then they should read the site interviewsFPzero: So I know you've been in a number of hacking communities besides here, what other games have you either tried hacking or been familiar with?Tyty: Not a whole lot, at least with resultsTyty: but I've done graphics stuff in the GBA fire emblems, looked at pokemon hacking and went nope, and dabbled a bit in early 3DS Etrian Odyssey hackingTyty: Oh, also BrawlTyty: Someone called Tanks and I were actually a part of figuring out the brstm loop timing formatTyty: where there was a delay if it didn't line up with the correct sample offsetTyty: I'm also looking to get into SM64 hacking just because it seems funFPzero: SM64 does seem like it'd be neat. I know there's some pretty cool hacks for it being made these daysFPzero: Do you have any ideas what you want to do with it?Tyty: Not really, honestly. Maybe a snow/ice level?Tyty: I wanna make levels that have less bottomless void than a lot of hacks thoughTyty: They all seem to be made with people who have mastered the game in mind, a lot like earlier SMW hacks, not with people who played it before and are looking for something neatTyty: I notice a lot of awkward jumps, or requiring the player to know things that aren't super intuitiveTyty: like how diving -immediately- after a triple jump makes the jump go way fartherFPzero: I suppose the hacking community is still going through some growing pains in that regardFPzero: with hacks being made mostly for themselves or twitch streamersTyty: shoutouts to simpleflips i guess

FPzero: So is there anything else you'd like to do on the site beyond just twitter?FPzero: Like, a different or additional staff dutyTyty: I mean, I like the lack of responsibilityFPzero: hahahaTyty: I wouldn't mind hosting or running some events though, maybe hacking contests. Other PR stuff. I don't think I'd want to move to actual staff duty beyond -maybe- graphics moderation...Tyty: Though I worry I'd be way too harsh if I was a graphics mod. Like I said, picky.FPzero: (this is the worst interview I have no idea what I'm doing lol)Tyty: nah I'm just a terrible interviewee

FPzero: I don't think you've made any full SMW hacks but I know you've participated in lots of contests and events. What draws you to making levels for those?Tyty: Probably the fact I finish them, I have ideas for a full hack but it'll never get rolling due to the amount of ASM requiredTyty: A contest, single world hack, collab, etc is a lot less commitmentFPzero: I totally feel thatFPzero: Which entry is your favorite, or did you have the most fun making?Tyty: VLDC6 hands downTyty: Easily the most fun I've had designing a mario levelTyty: MAGL3 was pretty fun too, but I drained myself by working so much on musicFPzero: I drained myself working on the sky ledges for that oneTyty: music porting sucks kids, don't do itFPzero: Do you think you'll enter whatever next contest we host?Tyty: if I'm not absolutely dead I'll try to, I've never entered a 24hosmwFPzero: Oh I forgot about that, I was thinking of the next LDC, whatever it isTyty: I was actually gonna ask to judge for the next big LDCFPzero: That could be funTyty: you heard it here first folks, everyone make fun romps this timeFPzero: hooray

FPzero: Alright I guess it's time for the rapid fire questions that i'm definitely not making up as I goTyty: I mean you've made up everything else so farFPzero: the points don't matter eitherTyty: Just like my existenceFPzero: oofTyty: FPzero: favorite sprite in smw and whyTyty: porcupuffer, he's my boyFPzero: best sonic gameTyty: Sonic adventure 2 battle. Fite me.FPzero: your least favorite color?Tyty: dark yellow. It looks too much like a sickly green.Tyty: There's a reason you shade yellow with orange and brownFPzero: dark yellow is ass, I'm in total agreementFPzero: What music do you like to listen to in the background?Tyty: shuffleTyty: When working on something mostly chiptunes or game music thoughFPzero: How many cooks is Too Many CooksTyty: 5.34563Tyty: it's fine if there is a 6th who just remains silent and nods sagelyFPzero: What's next on your sous vide experiments?Tyty: PorkFPzero: tell me moreTyty: chopsFPzero: deliciousTyty: Too many people dry 'em outFPzero: Sprite the portraits?Tyty: FPzero: FPzero: rate this interview on a scale of 0 to FTyty: FPzero: favorite memeTyty: https://youtu.be/EgwDlJ-1Il8FPzero: i really have nothing else to ask I'm very bad at thisTyty: it's okayTyty: dwFPzero: why did they think I'd be a good choiceTyty: iunno they hired meFPzero: we can question the mental acuity of the other pr folks another time

FPzero: Anyway! Thank you for joining me for this interview and answering questions about yourselfFPzero: anything else you'd like to say before we go?Tyty: FPzero: inspirationalTyty: npTyty: it's what I do

FPzero: (this interview should've just been me copy and pasting all my drv3 endgame commentary to you)Tyty: (sakura is indeed everyone's waifu)FPzero: (mine died twice, too pure for this world or the fake one)FPzero: Tyty: